The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The largest marine oil spill in United States history began on April 20‚ 2010‚ with an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of barrels of oil flowed into the water over the next 87 days‚ much of which washed up on shore along the Gulf coast region of the United States and Mexico. The accident was the result of numerous shortcuts undertaken by BP‚ and resulted in both environmental destruction and legal action. The events
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My Goals and Concerns My goals for this class is that I want to understand more about how people feel about ethics and if they want to change them. If they want to change them‚ then why do they want to change them‚ and what would they change them to. My only fears are that maybe the instructor does not put enough information out about the assignments on what should be done. That even after I contact the instructor and ask questions that I believe will help clarify the assignment‚ I still will not
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External Environment (Macro environment) Analysis: With respect to the specific organization (in this case‚ BP); things are changing at a rapid pace since the supply and demand of oil is becoming highly dependent upon socio political condition of different parts of the world‚ where its business is operating.For the external business environment analysis of global oil industry (with respect to BP) the selected analysis tool is PESTEL. This model presents a strategy framework built over variables like
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Air pollution is by far the most harmful form of pollution in our environment. Air pollution is cause by the injurious smoke emitted by cars‚ buses‚ trucks‚ trains‚ and factories‚ namely sulphur dioxide‚ carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. Even smoke from burning leaves and cigarettes are harmful to the environment causing a lot of damage to man and the atmosphere. Evidence of increasing air pollution is seen in lung cancer‚ asthma‚ allergies‚ and various breathing problems along with severe and
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CONCERN FOR PEOPLE AND CONCERN FOR WORK IN MANAGEMENT One of the most recent challenges of a typical manager in many establishments is the trouble of determining how much of attention should be given to production and the need of workers. A manager who concentrates on the various flimsy excuses of his workers is not likely to be a productive manager. Likewise a manager whose attention and focus is mainly on the work to be done‚ would also be a bad leader even though he attains a productive result
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill July 5‚ 2010 Word count: Background: BP plc is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and it is the United Kingdom’s largest corporation the fourth largest company in the world (BP‚ Wikipedia). Its name is initials of the company’s former legal names British Petroleum. British Petroleum merged with Amoco in December
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BRITISH PETROLEUM MODULE: MANAGING ACTIVITIES ASSIGNMENT TITLE: British petroleum (BP) MAY 2012 BY: STUDENT ID:BMC111213975 LECTURER: SUBMISSION DATE: 15th may 2012 CONTENTS PAGE TASKS | PAGE | Introduction | 4 | PART 1 Task 1- Structure and culture of BP and relationship between the different processes and functions. | 5-7 | Task2-identify British petroleum mission
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data Paper QNT/351 May 13‚ 2013 Mr. James Malachowski Analyzing and Interpreting Data Paper The culmination of a research study includes being able to analyze and interpret the data that has been collected. This paper will provide the null and alternative hypothesis‚ explain the hypothesis testing procedure used‚ describe the results of that test‚ and explain how those results will answer the team’s previously stated research question. Null and Alternative Hypotheses
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Effects of Oil Spills & Fluctuating Gas Prices in the United States of America Strayer University Spring Semester 2010 “Every area in the country is subject to some kind of disaster - flood‚ hurricane‚ earthquake‚ to name a few. Even man-made disasters - oil spill‚ civil unrest‚ fire - can devastate the surrounding neighborhood and economy. Even though an area has never been damaged before‚ there is no guarantee that it will not happen tomorrow.” ~Carol Chastang Oil spills not only affect
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Petroleum (BP) has won acclaims and awards for CSR. But Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar (Times of India‚ Bangalore edition 2010) argued in his article that BP has created the greatest environmental disaster in history which includes its out-of-control Macondo deep-sea well. Gulf of Mexico oil leak is another big historical issue. BP has created a huge image building campaign of ‘beyond petroleum’ critics say that BP has now spindling with ‘beyond problems’ (NJ Watson‚ Petroleum Economist‚ 2009). BP states
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